Treatment and Teaching of Collocations

Learning vocabulary is the most important prerequisite for learning any foreign language because one cannot communicate precisely without words. But unfortunately many students are still asked to learn word lists with explanations in English or even equivalents in their native language. This method of learning is faulty Words are not learnable as isolates, but in chunks which fall into categories like collocations, phrasal verbs or proverbs. Emphasis is laid on the treatment and the relevant techniques for teaching collocation by investigating the notion of collocation and providing a brief conceptual framework that deals with the issue in a practical and interesting way.